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Introduction|
Attention:
For just a moment, I want you to ask yourself this question: how do you want others to treat you?
Background:
Solomon is begging his son to embrace wisdom in his life by helping him understand the importance of wisdom in his life.
Need Element:
Jesus says: "But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.
Give to everyone who asks of you, and whoever takes away what is yours, do not demand it back.
Treat others the same way you want them to treat you” (, NASB).
Everyone wants to be treated with kindness, love, and respect.
Tonight, I want us to learn how we shouldn’t treat others to help us know how to treat others with love, kindness, and respect!
Textual Idea:
Solomon reminds his son that wisdom can be seen in our relationships with others.
Big Idea:
Wisdom helps us treat others with love ().
Interrogative:
How shouldn’t you treat others?
Outline|
I.
A wise and loving person doesn’t withhold good or kindness from others (vv.
27-28)
Explanation:
I want yo to nice Solomon’s advice to His son about others:
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee” ().
First, we notice that we shouldn’t withhold good from others (vv.
27).
One can actually say it this way: “do not withhold good from its owner.”
The word good carries the idea of something that is morally, legally, or ethically good.
“We sin against each other not only by the bad things we do,” writes one writer “but also by the beautiful things we withhold.
From God’s standpoint, when it is when our ability and power, we show good to others by helping them.
Secondly, we notice that we shouldn’t be stingy but generous towards others (vv.
28).
Jesus defines our neighbor “as someone we encounter who is in need of help ().”
When others are in need, and it is within our ability, we shouldn’t withhold kindness and generosity from others.
Warren Wiersbe says that a “Wise Christians will be generous to their neighbors.”
This verse encourages us to “give promptly and willingly.”
Illustration:
It takes a long time to fill a glass with drops of water.
Even when the glass seems full, it can still make one, two, three, four, or five or more additional drops.
But if you will keep at it, there is at last that one drop that makes the glass overflow.
The same applies to deeds of kindness.
In a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.
Argumentation:
Why shouldn’t we withhold good and kindness from others?
The reason is simple because Christ doesn’t withhold good and kindness from you! Thus, you ought to be a little Christ that models his actions to others.
Application:
In our life, you ought to be good to others!
If you are withholding good from others, you need to ask God to forgive you and those whom you have wronged!
Are you withholding good from your friends, family, church, co-workers, or neighbors?
Moreover, you ought to also be generous towards others.
If you are withholding your money or possessions from others, the Bible defines you in two ways: 1) a sinner and 2) an unwise person.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be defined as neither of those two opinions!
If you are able, I want to encourage you to give willingly and quickly towards the needs of others.
II.
A wise and loving person doesn’t scheme or argue with others (vv.
29-30)
Explanation:
Next, Solomon says to his son:
“Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm” ().
First, you shouldn’t plan to harm others (vv.
29).
The word devise suggests planning and preparing.
God reminds us not to plot harm against our neighbors.
As one person points out, your neighbor can be “a fellow citizen or a friend or companion.”
We shouldn’t devise an evil plan because that person most of the times trusts us—“Don’t plot harm against your neighbor for those who live nearby trust you” (, NLT).
You can harm a person in many ways: 1) you can physically harm them (fighting) or 2) you can emotionally hurt someone (cutting words, gossip, backbiting, etc.).
Next, you shouldn’t argue with others (vv.
30).
The word strive suggests quarreling or contending with someone.
One translation says: “Do not accuse anyone for no reason— when they have done you no harm” (, NIV).
The idea is that we shouldn’t bring an accession against someone without a legitimate cause (NET).
We ought to be people who avoid unnecessary disagreements with others.
Paul says: "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men” ().
The idea is that we shouldn’t be “a faultfinding, critical person, ready to pounce on some well-meaning individual. . .
[because] that is a culture of death.”
Illustration:
A certain married couple had a quarrel and ended up giving each other the silent treatment.
Two days into their mute argument, the man realized he needed his wife’s help.
In order to catch a flight to Chicago for a business meeting, he had to get up at 5 a.m.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5 a.m.”
The next morning the man woke up only to discover his wife was already out of bed, it was 9 a.m., and his flight had long since departed.
He was about to find his wife and demand an answer for her failings when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
He read, “It’s 5 a.m.
Wake up.”
Argumentation:
Why shouldn’t we argue and scheme against others?
The Book of Romans commands us to “live peaceably with all men” ().
To put it plainly, we shouldn’t argue and scheme because God says so!
Application:
This text can be applied to a couple of different situations.
First, you should plan to harm others with your words, deeds, or attitudes.
If you are hurtful on purpose, you are not practicing wisdom!
Secondly, you shouldn’t quarrel with someone when they have done no harm.
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